The Ethical Imagination

Jul 13, 2012 | Current Books

The subtitle of this book is Journey of the Human Spirit. Margaret Somerville asks the primal question:What does it mean to be human, today. She takes you on an ethical, yet spiritual, journey. She is the founding director of the Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law at...

The Night Trilogy

Jul 13, 2012 | Current Books

This book is written by Elie Weisel,Nobel Peace Prize winner, 1986. This book has three parts. First is his painful story of his survival of Auschwitz. The second section is a story about a freedom fighter in Palestine before 1948. And the last section deals with the...

Shame on Rogge and the IOC

Jul 13, 2012 | Politics

WALL OF SHAME Rogge, the IOC and Munich Moment of Silence During the second week of the Munich Games, 1972, eight members of the Black September, a Palestinian militant group, penetrated the laxly secured Olympic Village and took Israeli team members hostage. A day...

Fear of death

Jul 8, 2012 | Politics

I had the opportunity, Sunday June 24, to speak on CBC Cross Country Checkup. The topic was assisted-suicide. Those in favour spoke of terrible deaths. Those against talked about palliative care. I spoke about ethics.I said that how we treat people at the beginning...

God Was Not in the Fire

Jul 8, 2012 | Current Books

Daniel Gordis is the author of a book on the search for Spirituality in Judaism. For those who are Jewish and have perhaps lost their way, this is an excellent path of rediscovery. You don’t have to be Jewish to appreciate his teachings of the importance of...